Virtual reality applications in the extractive industry¿a short review

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2019

Authors

Joana Duarte (Author) FEUP; Maria de Lurdes Dinis (Author) Other; João Santos Baptista (Author) FEUP

Book

Title: Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health

Pages: 53-60

ISBN: 978-3-030-14729-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-14730-3

Publisher: Springer

Indexing

Scopus - 0 Citations

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Technology > Safety technology

FOS: Engineering and technology

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00Q-8MY

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14730-3_6

Abstract (EN): The mining industry presents itself as one of the sectors with major occupational accidents, being only surpassed by agriculture (including fishing) and forestry (including hunting). The technology development has been improving safety awareness and working practises; one of the most used tools is virtual reality (VR). The PRISMA Statement methodology was applied in order to find evidence of these new technologies in the extractive industry. For that, a set of keywords related to both topics (mining and VR) was defined, and the main journals and databases in the engineering field were screened. After applied both exclusion and inclusion criteria, the 1786 papers were reduced to eight. The results show that this resource is useful, however, when comparing to the application in the construction field, in what concerns to safety management, there is still a lot to achieve. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8